v ' A YEET IIIpL HEAD. WONDERFUL FEATS GROSS. OF NE- ExalbMleas ml TtataavRoage A Haa Who Could Carry Two Backets of Water ob UliBnd. In Baton Eoage for the first time we were brought lato collision with the equllibrlstlc negro the black person who has solved the secret of the law of gravitation and. to whom the feat of balancing a whole May-day moving upon his or her head is a little, trifling, Inconsequential matter. In other com munities the district telegraph boy and the express wagon symbolize the busi ness of small transportation, but In the southland the steady-headed colored person stands for that traffic. The first J aay ui our visit in uaton Houge was prolific of wonders in this particular line. On the main street of the town vre met a black woman of CO or there abouts who conveyed upon her head a huge basket with .what seemed to be the washing for seven large families piling In a peak like Popocatapetl above her moving form. She did not deign to steady this enormous burde...

-V ir ' i . DISTINGUISHED LINEAGE. Ai M. Txltbj of Fort Dodge, Iowa, recdred tkxs "(reek sotice tkt kis aaotkjr, Ekie B&J1 Felta, k ose of ike hirs to tte famous Joseph Ball estate which is esti mated at over $100,000,000. Joseph Ball died intestate in 1890 ia Philadelphia, -without is ee, leaving a vast estate consist iag mostly of real estate, a large amount of which was leased for 99 years. Numerous attempts have been made to collect testimony sufficient to secure an equitable settlement of the estate, and to collect data to write up a correct history of the Ball family, all of which hare been partial failures. Recently the in- terest in the 'matter has been re Tired by the report that the gov ernment was' owing the Ball estate a large amount of money in conse quence of the payment of the. French spoilation claims. The Indianapolis Sentinel gives the fol lowing account of a systematic effort that is being made to ac complish the desired result: "The claimants of the Joseph Ba...

COWBOYS' wild hee, PERILS OF MILL1NQ A RUNAWAY HERD. How the Bleached Bones of Xnm Jef freys Vindicated His Honor. -aad Showed .Tfcat Bo Ksd Xot JTad the Jadcmeat of BU Peers. VER tee a eattle stampede?" asked a grizzled plainsman who had passed the greater -part of his life upon th9 great cattle range3 of the west. "I tell you, it is a magnifi cent spectacle, at once grand and awe-Inspiring. "To mill a stampede, as the operation of circling the leaders is termed, is a task fraught with extreme danger, as It is necessary for the cowboys who bare charge of the herd to ride at breakneck speed side' by side with the leaders of the affrighted cattle, gradu ally nearing them until the cattle veer from their original course and turn back into the remainder of the band. The misstep of a pony in this mad race of life and death Is fatal to the rider, who is cast beneath a thousand pairs of trampling hoofs in the twink ling of an eye, to be crushed and trampled out of recognition. I remem ber...

r COL. EL! BAXTER'S LETTER, I mb Democrat. I was in. the last -wax aad was on the side that was the -weakest. In my family there were, all told, more than a haadred negroes. The notion I had about men before, the war I hate now. I have not changed a bit. I have never seen a China stan, an Italian or any other for eigner of the common stock that I would pnt on an equal footing with the negroes of this country. Our folks are daily looking the facts in the face. If we had hare allowed General Lee to have had his way daring the war power never could have been -wrested out o our hands. General Lee wanted all of the mas ters to free their negroes and then appeal to them to stand by the south. Gosh! If we had have done it, today the -white people and the black people -would have been so trustful and so helpful to each other, until -we would all now be one people, united and firm, stand ing like a brick wall against all outsiders. It's got to come to this finally and our thoughtful people -...

' - m &? f . fr: 'Let us all hope that the J I lamp of liberty will con-1 No one is deservine of tinue-to bum in all men until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are liberty who is unwilling to grant others all the privileges he claims and exercises for himself. Socrates. . rt created free 2 : equal. Hew to the Line. Tol. IU. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 14, 1898. No. 38 '.urc jfai .rrrM iMte JiWm': i s s PtCSS ASSOCIATION OUR REVIEW. 0 fA Past and the Future of the American Negro, by D. W. Culp, A. M M. D. XXVIII. THE NZOKO AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. We have already observed that slavery did not become a national or political isaue until 1840 and that the Whig party succeeded in defeating the Democratic party. . Bat ire will refrain from reviewing the Harrison and Tyler admiuistra- 4Br3Fl I B J .. tion and before proceeding we wish to impress this fact upon the mindtj1 of the members of our race thatj James G. Birney, an ex-slave hoi der of Kentucky, was the first real a...

Mrs, 'TofflpfciBS-'jttt&i awfnllv to die." "Did she? Wliy7" -She said there wouldn't be anybody who Icnow jiow to straighten up tke house after uer funeral." AlC3ttook Ahea. Politicians are even ow wetchlnp jie possibilities InTolved In the aeit axcsidcntlal election. he papers are fall of predictions as to the Xutnre which nre somewhat too sclf-confldent gut it Is safe to say that a .systematic conrse of Hostetters Stomach Bitters K-ill renew health In the bilious, rheu matic or nervous- -How heartlessly Josephine treats her husband!" "Yes; she has bought a bright red umbrella so he can't carry It" The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest ern Railway Company has changed ita dining car system from table de bote to a la carte, -with the result of In creased profits, better service and greater satisfaction on the part of the patrons. The cars are open for busi ness during the entire time they are on the train and the innovation seems to have met with the approval of the passengers. "Then ...

,Tpa- eW 5 -- r- - ,- 'rXv liet us all hooe that fhp 5 '-3) lamp of liberty will con- J tinue to burn in all men . until there shall no longer v be a doubt that all men are No one is desarvinp- of 1 1.-U-L l- ?.. iiucrty wjqo is unwilling to grant others all the privileges he claims and exercises for himself Socrates. -,- '& created free and equal-Pith, tsft HE-W TO THE LINE. Vol. III. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 28, 1896. No. 40 r ivL cstv r PftESS ASSOCIATION OUR REVIEW. Of the Past and the Future of the America Negro, by D. W. Cvlp, A. M., M. D. xcc. THK NEGRO AND THE TARTY. DBMpCRATIC The result of the election of 1848 was far-reaching. Zachariah Tar lor was elected hat his triumph was theideath of the Whig party and the long-coveted prize of the Presidency was snatched from Lewis Cass,and Mai tin Van Buren, Charles Sumner and his other sup porters, felt greatly mortified and humiliated when they realized the tact that there were less than three hundred thousand voters in the ...

s yr w A CASE OF "Ml TOO." gf 6uth " vnaas raws ivo, j new. xsna, TTo nil IOTA RTHlDatllV. TWhana !,. jcconnts for the fact that r ot m ill Jlstea to Mooter's tale of wee r: iiiil - ---------- ww iixi faa aiiiinmr rw- onTown grleTances, says a writer la ; Harpers aax&r. A small girl -who has a baby brotbec always seems to envy him the sympa thy showered opon him -when he has the colic as soon as ine mother tries to soothe tne rrenui naoy and speaks pityingly to him a sigall hand polls jjer arm and a plaintive little voice -wctc? "Me. too. mnTnTnnt Do not many of us ko throngh the world with a pitiful "Me, toor con- gantly on onr ups? xne heart know eth its own "bitterness and the soul Its own trials, and It Is hard not to cry out "Me, toor "when we see lavished npon others the sympathy for -which we long and of -which -we Xeel -we itand in need. And yet how much braver It Is to .n sllpnral Kverr Hm tro arimiien the habit of self-control -we gain fresh streBRiu i-u miituiu fouiru...

-i rWf'-f- 'W,t,.3tji,s-v ft. 1- Jf V1 't-. K; A ,:&vv jt ffc ":&-? ir M S . , "i! -V -v s '. -Let us all hope that the 1 lamp of liberty will con-1 n&'q) .:53p-',Sjii.' v - " AT, Xc AnoX nf liberty who is unwilling to grant others all the privileges he claims and tume to burn m all men until ther shall no longer r he a doubt that all men are created free and equaL-Rtfr) ' -h 3 Svyr7ts klS Hew to the Line. Vol. IIL SALT LAKE CiTY, UTAH, JUNE 4, 1898. No. 41 J I - ,. ? - rMi Yf f . jy cgsc)" PWSS 'ASSOCIATION THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. On Friday, May 27th, ye editor and Mxa. Taylor left for Omaha on the Union Pacific ''overland limited" which is by far the finest and the fastest train running be tween this city and 'Omaha. Its coaches are all elaborately fur nished, and one can enjoy all the home comforts while traveling at the rate of thirty-five to forty miles per hour. All the train men from conduc tors down to the lowest whom we came in contact with were very p...

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